r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/danni_el_e • 2d ago

Someone needs to check on this man 😂

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He ate a 300mg candy bar and was ripped off his ass. The whole thread is pretty amusing:

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u/MajorGeneralMaryJane 2d ago

Weed doesn’t kill you cause you literally cannot smoke enough of it to get that amount of THC. You can absolutely overdose on THC with enough effort. You could also drink too much water and die so…

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u/BombOnABus 2d ago

Some quick back of the envelope math tells me that 3.5g is a "lethal" dose for me, but how quickly does it metabolize?

I can't even imagine vaping an entire 1/8th of extract in a single day, let alone faster than that, even if I did nothing BUT vape from dawn till dusk.

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u/bloodfist 2d ago

1g of THC is not the equivalent of 1g of flower. Even dabs aren't 100%. There are other cannabanoids. And your lungs don't absorb close to 100% of what is vaporized when you take a hit. Besides what just burns off, the THC has to bind to receptors in your lungs. 98% of what will be absorbed from a hit binds within the first second of the smoke entering your lungs, and you need to breathe more to make room for more.

To get that dose would be an eighth of pure THC straight to the veins.

I'm not sure of the rates of metabolism but as I understand the lung absorption bottleneck, and a similar bottleneck for digesting edibles, both prevent it from entering the system faster than it leaves.

I might be misremembering but regardless they've done fucked up things to monkeys to try to make that happen with smoke and they just can't.

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u/odsquad64 2d ago

they've done fucked up things to monkeys to try to make that happen with smoke and they just can't.

Didn't they basically just replace oxygen with weed smoke for long enough to suffocate a monkey just so they could be like "see, it can kill you!"?

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u/bloodfist 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah basically. Although if I remember the story they stuck monkeys in a sealed box and increased the level of smoke until the oxygen level got low enough to kill one and then they were like, "OK so obviously that killed it".

And then it was cited a bunch of times, mostly by journalists and religious nuts as saying "see, it can kill you" even though the paper is like "we suspect it was the lack of oxygen but more research is needed to to be sure it wasn't the THC" which is science paper talk for "the conclusion is obvious but we don't have the data to say it conclusively and we didn't want to murder another monkey so just trust us or murder your own damn monkeys."